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Source: Tech World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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In 1995, I participated in a debate with distinguished security expert Robert D. Steele, a vigorous proponent of open source intelligence. We discussed the advisability of hiring criminal hackers. Perhaps readers will find the polemic I published back then of interest today. I’m sure it will provoke vitriolic comments from the criminal hacker community.
Our debate today concerns the proposition that criminal hackers are a national resource and should be cultivated as valuable contributors to national and corporate security.
I utterly reject this proposition.
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No, society must not reward criminal behavior. Criminal hackers — those who break the law by intruding into computer systems and networks without authorisation and those who steal services from telecommunications companies — must not be rewarded for their criminality.
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